News
March 14, 2024
Three successful candidates have been selected to join PRI: Joanna Feehan, Jinny Yang, and Derek Denney, who will commence their appointments sometime in 2024.
February 7, 2024
PRI, in coordination with the Plant Cell Atlas, is excited to announce an art exhibit featuring historically significant Black scholars in plant science.
February 4, 2024
PSM faculty, including PRI's Sarah Lebeis and Addie Thompson, and staff wrap up a second program together with Detroit's EcoTek lab.
January 19, 2024
Rose Marks, a postdoctoral researcher in the VanBuren lab, will begin as an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in August of this year.
December 13, 2023
Leah Johnson is the 2023 recipient of the Kende Award, which acknowledges the best doctoral dissertation in plant sciences at Michigan State University over the last two years.
November 15, 2023
Five researchers and professors from Michigan State University, including PRI's Gregg Howe, have been recognized in the “2023 Highly Cited Researchers” list, a ranking organized annually by Clarivate Analytics.
November 9, 2023
MSU researcher Tom Sharkey discusses how plants adapt to decreased sunlight after the time change.
September 14, 2023
In plants, the jasmonate signaling pathway helps plants control their defense responses to environmental stresses. Like the human body, plants respond differently to individual threats. Just as people wouldn’t get a fever due to a sprained ankle, plants deal with harmful elements in particular ways. A study from the Howe lab looks at how plants respond to environmental threats in the correct way.
September 8, 2023
The Plant Resilience Institute (PRI) at Michigan State University invites applications for up to two Postdoctoral Fellowships in plant resilience. We encourage applications from candidates in any early-career stage, from finishing PhD students to current postdoctoral scholars.












